[GRLUG] slow web surfing

[Brad Becker]

Hey folks, I recently installed CentOS 6.3 to run an OpenArena server.
While it works well, my web surfing experience on Firefox 10.0.10 has been,
well, painful to say the least.  Often times web sites are slow to load,
other times the connection simply times out.

This is a wired connection on a dual boot pc running Win 7.  I experience
none of the sluggishness in Win.  I'm looking for suggestions (in
preferably layman's terms) in order to get some zing back into my browsing
experience.

Don't know if this helps ...

[arcturus at localhost ~]$ ifconfig
eth0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 6C:F0:49:03:C3:CD
          inet addr:192.168.1.83  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe03:c3cd/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1942547 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:767319 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:599378829 (571.6 MiB)  TX bytes:165013273 (157.3 MiB)
          Interrupt:30 Base address:0x2000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3967 (3.8 KiB)  TX bytes:3967 (3.8 KiB)

[arcturus at localhost ~]$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     1      0        0 eth0
default         home            0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
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